protective laws for women workers, 1890s-1990s
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Woloch, Nancy
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 5 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, vrouwenarbeid, wetgeving, nachtarbeid, vakbonden, gelijke beloning, vrouwenbewegingen, zwangerschappen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and 1970s.